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ovate-lanceolate, constricted at the base, 4—5” long. Petals 4, rather 
longer than the calyx, obovate, emarginate, with hairy claws, yellow 
Stamens hairy at the base. Capsule nearly cylindrical, 1—1!/2' long, 8- 
bbed e nth. Fl. 1 
— Gray, Bot. U.S. E. E. p. 619. — J. angustifolia, Lam. — Hook. & Arn. 
Bot. Beech. and Gaud. Bot. Freye. — Grisebach, in Fl. W. Ind. p. 273, 
unites J. villosa and J. octonervia, Lam., and J. octofila, DC., with J. 
sie Seca L. 
Very r the whole group in old «taro» patches and along water-courses. 
Disdoubtodly p ciate po a the discovery. Nat. name: «Kamole». — The species is widely 
distributed over the warmer regions of America (from Arkansas to Brazil) and Asia. 
Orper XXXIV. CUCURBITACEAE. 
Flowers usually unisexual. Calyx of fem. fl. superior (or adherent at 
the base and produced above the ovary), usually 5-toothed. Petals 5, or 
united into a 5-lobed corolla, apparently continuous with the ren eigen a 
calyx-teeth between the lobes or lower down. Stamens 3 or 5, 
united, inserted in the base or mouth of ne calyx, the anthers pas 
and curved or flexuose, one of them often 1-celled. Ovary inferior, usually 
l-celled when young, with 3 parietal placentas - which soon grow out so 
cell. Fruit pulpy, with a hard rind, or dry, i 
gularly. Seeds compressed, without albumen. Embryo straight, with flat 
cotyledons, the radicle next the hilum. — Climbers, ce herbaceous, 
with lateral tendrils. Leaves alternate, palmately veined or lobed 
A large Order, dispersed over all but the colder regions of the globe, tie most abun- 
n 
1. Lagenaria. 
Leaves lobed; co calle cam paint, rallow : 2. Cucurbita. 
Filaments connate; seed single, pendulow: 3. Sieyos. 
1. LAGENARIA, 5 
Flowers mostly monoecious, solitary hack | on long peduncles. Calyx 
campanulate, iexn 5-cleft or -toot thed. Petals 5, free, obcordate or ob- 
ovate. Stamens inserted in the calyx-tube, the filaments free; anthers 
casts siehiiy cohering, their ae cells contiguous or discreet, ma 
nnective not produced. Female fl. on shorter peduncles. Calyx a 
wihetis as before, but the tube nd the former adnate. No rudiments oF 
stamens. Ovary with 3 parietal placentas and many horizontal ovules 
Style hae thick, the 3 stigmas 2-lobed. Fruit _ shaped, wiscthis 
indehiscent, many-seeded. Seeds compressed, margined. 
cent, musk-scented climber. Leaves ovate or seaiteieseubaiti or sounied, 
